Helen Frances Gregor

Helen Frances Gregor (28 June 1921 – 25 May 1989) was a Czech-Canadian artist who specialised in textile art.

Career Gregor was born in Prague in Czechoslovakia, the daughter of Fred and Lily Lorenz. She was considering a career in theatrical design, but moved with her family to England in 1940 to escape the Second World War. She studied art at Newark Technical College, Birmingham College of Art, and at the Royal College of Art's School of Design in London. She exhibited at the Czechoslovak Club, and at Liberty's of London. She also studied at the American School of Craftsmen in Rochester, New York.

Gregor moved to Canada with her husband, and became a teacher at Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto in 1952, where she founded and became head of the textile department. She worked in textile art, creating tapestries. and the Art Gallery of Ontario.

Gregor died of a heart attack in Seoul, South Korea. Her husband died in 2008.